Sandra Bertrand Biography (1943-)

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Sandra Bertrand's work has received staged readings or production at TheViridian Gallery in New York, The Manhattan Theatre Club, The Direct Theatre,LaMama Theatre Company in Hollywood as well as the O'Neill PlayWrights Conference. She was an original member of the New York Theatre Strategy Workshop with Maria Irene Fornes. Her current projects include 'Nostradamus,' a contemporary full-length rock opera, writing both book and lyrics, and 'The Santorini Journal,' an autobiographical novel based on the Aegeanisland of Lost Atlantis fame.

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Occupation

playwright

Birth Details

March 19, 1943

Bakersfield, California

Famous Works

First Stage Work

Princess, Sweet Bird of Youth, Pan Players, San Francisco, CA, 1962.

Theatre-Related Career

Contributing editor, Places: A Journal of Theatre, 1973; book reviewer, West Scene; book reviewer, Our Town.

Plays

Manikin, finalist O'Neill National Play-wrights Conference; The Transformation of Aura Rhanes, finalist, O'Neill Playwrights Conference; Days and Nights of an Ice Cream Princess; Something About the Albatross, selected by the Office of Advanced Drama Research, 1973; The Sentry and the Laughing Ladies, 1974; Death in the Robe Arbor, 1976; Snow White, book and lyrics for Project Educational Theatre.

Television Plays

Chameoleon, produced at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference inthe Television category; Coming Attractions; The Big Blue Marble.

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